Historical Sinkings

[yardmaster]

Are ships that were sunk during WWII removed from campaign games on the date of their sinking? For example, HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by the Japanese on Dec. 10, 1941. Would it "disappear" from my game on Dec. 10, 1941?

[blackswan40]

Hi Yardmaster in GWX a lot of single shipping and convoys are written in the Random leyer and the ships taskforces convoys spawn every 100-180hrs also
for example a 40ship convoy 10 ships spawn 100% of the time 10 ships 50% of the time 10 ships 30% of the time and last 10 ships 10-25% of the time
and at the way points that convoy travels along there maybe radius circles so when the convoy enters into that circle it can spawn anywhere in that radius of the circle that's 50kms-250kms or larger in diamiter so you can't cherry pick sat there in your uboat waiting for the same tanker or linner to come past you again in 3-5 days so to speak
maybe the graf spee may spawn for a month on its early war cruise then when it gets to its last way point or exit date it will then disappear
but that pocket battle ship may respawn every 40hrs or so on its rampage in the alantic it may steam 12000-25000kms or more so if its respawning theres going tobe lots of graf spee's 40 hrs apart on the same track so to speak open up your SH3 mission editor then view your RND leyer and let it run in the mission editor say sept-1939 to sept-1940 see all the yellow static diamond icons they are the convoys ships starting point ect then the green moving icons are the spawning version of those convoys and ships going along there waypoints as you can see that's a lot of traffic

the GWX campaign has three leyers to it

LND = Land leyer that's all the harbors and harbor defences airbases

RND = Random Leyer Random Shiping

SCR = Scripted Leyer any ship convoys planes spawn 100% and will go along its way points until its last way point is reached or its exit date is reached the screenie below those convoys have exacly one month to cross the atlantic then that convoy disappears never to respawn
the idea behind adding convoys to the scripted leyer is if you found a convoy in grid AM1955 on 10th January 1941 and I found same convoy on 11th January say 12-18hrs later in grid AM1937 it would be exacly the same convoy because its written in the SCR scripted leyer
am essential ingredient if playing a multiplayer based campaign

the Campaign is a living breathing enterty that spawns convoys ships controlled by time minutes hour day month year

below screenie of scripted leyer convoys waiting for there sail date (a different campaign to the one your playing)



If you need any help with anything reply to this post or drop me a pm

[CTU_Clay]

Great explanation Andy.